✨In this episode, Rachel Bertenshaw shares her lived experience of PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder) and explains why she created a peer-led PMDD community in the UK Northwest to address the lack of post-diagnostic support. She describes PMDD as a cyclical mood disorder and disability that can severely disrupt work, relationships, and daily functioning, often worsening from ovulation to menstruation, and details symptoms including rage, agitation, brain fog, overstimulation, swelling, bowel issues, heavy periods, and suicidal thoughts.

🌙Rachel discusses frequent misdiagnosis (e.g., bipolar disorder), underfunding and limited research in women’s health, possible sensitivity to hormone fluctuations, and links with ADHD. She outlines diagnostic tracking over three months and treatment options ranging from contraception and SSRIs to hysterectomy, and directs listeners to “PMDD Northwest” on Instagram for events and peer support.

🎧 About The Souls Podcast
The Souls Podcast is a space for deep conversations on spirituality, healing, consciousness, manifestation, and personal growth — hosted by Claire and Nic.

Chapters:
00:00 Meet Rachel
00:31 Building a Peer Support Community
01:22 What PMDD Really Is
02:19 Cycle Timing and Hormone Sensitivity
04:45 Years to Diagnosis Story
06:10 Symptoms Rage and Brain Fog
08:54 Awareness and Self Forgiveness
09:25 PMDD and ADHD Connection
10:37 Physical Symptoms and Genetics
13:20 Cyclical Living and Research Gaps
15:12 Coping Tools Diet and Acceptance
17:16 Women Misdiagnosed Historically
18:10 Cycles Perimenopause and ADHD
19:13 Work Life and Partner Support
22:06 Fertility Questions and Body Awareness
22:47 Diagnosis Tracking and Treatments
25:32 Suicidality and Monthly Crisis
26:39 Young Girls and Mental Health Services
27:48 Diet Hormones and Social Inequality
30:36 Community Support and Finding Help
32:40 How to Reach Out and Final Thanks

✨ This episode we interview Phoebe Greenacre, a Bali-based somatic therapist and nervous system coach, about her path from 10 years in corporate marketing and repeated burnout to yoga teaching, entrepreneurship, and supporting women (especially mothers) with nervous system regulation and generational trauma healing. We discuss grief after losing a parent, how it reshapes identity, and how grief can ebb and flow through everyday moments, alongside the added complexity of reparenting while parenting.

🌙Phoebe explains somatics as a bottom-up mind body approach that locates emotions as sensations in the body, contrasts it with talk therapy, and describes how layered, unprocessed emotions can surface as anger or anxiety. She shares practical strategies like scheduling rest first, “micro-mum moments,” and using yin yoga and conscious connected breathwork to access deeper release, including how yin targets fascia and meridians linked to emotions.

🎧 About The Souls Podcast
The Souls Podcast is a space for deep conversations on spirituality, healing, consciousness, manifestation, and personal growth — hosted by Claire and Nic.

Chapters:
00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro
00:58 Phoebe’s Burnout to Bali Story
01:39 Motherhood and Generational Healing
02:49 Personal Grief and Identity Shift
08:00 What Somatic Therapy Means
10:06 Layers of Emotion in the Body
14:06 Breathwork and Emotional Release
15:42 Business Burnout and Micro Rest
18:10 Yin Yoga and Daily Self Care
19:19 Self Love Isn’t Selfish
20:07 Breaking Family Patterns
21:32 Layered Grief and Rewiring
22:14 Tools for Emotional Awareness
23:01 Letting Grief Be Messy
23:59 Helping Someone Start
25:35 Talking About Death Openly
28:06 Yin Yoga Explained
33:37 Retreats Chakras and Meridians
35:44 Stillness Introspection and Journaling
37:50 Where to Find Phoebe

✨ In this episode, we interview Vadim, a board-certified psychologist and founder of Neuro Wave Therapy, about his background in body-based healing and how his method uses light touch to activate sensations, reflexes, shaking, and emotional release.

🌙Vadim explains that these “vibrations” can reveal body-held memories connected to past experiences, sometimes expressed as crying, pleasure, or orgasmic-like waves, and compares aspects of his work to Kundalini activation and tantra while emphasizing intentional therapeutic guidance and personal energetic independence. He discusses energy centers/chakras (including a three-center Tao framing), how trauma can create numbness or stiffness, and how retreats and sessions aim to help clients reconnect with body signals to make clearer life decisions.

🎧 About The Souls Podcast
The Souls Podcast is a space for deep conversations on spirituality, healing, consciousness, manifestation, and personal growth — hosted by Claire and Nic.

Chapters:
00:00 Meet Vadim
00:48 Origin Story Neuro Wave
04:50 Energy Shaking Explained
07:37 Trauma Or Pleasure Waves
10:17 Tantra Versus Neuro Wave
13:45 Sexuality And Vulnerability
16:45 Retreat Process And Reconnection
19:40 Kundalini Compared
22:10 Independence And Boundaries
24:55 Chakras And Energy Centers
27:48 Where To Find VA Boza
29:46 Final Thanks And Goodbye